🇮🇶 Iraq
Channel8
576i · Main feed
Channel8 is an Arabic, English and Kurdish-language news channel from Iraq, on air since 2023. Broadcast Atlas lists 1 public stream source up to 1920x1080.
Last checked August 13, 2026: the stream responded — 1920x1080, avc1.64001e video, mp4a.40.2 audio, 25fps, adaptive bitrate and live.
Launched January 1, 2023 · Also known as SD
Direct sources
Available streams
Streams open directly from their source hosts. Broadcast Atlas does not proxy, relay, transcode, or retransmit media.
Channel 8 Kurdish
live.channel8.com
HTTPS720p
Technical details · preference #1 · score 1822
The preference score rewards browser-ready HTTPS, HLS or image support, header-free playback, adaptive bitrate, reliability, and useful resolution. It is a selection heuristic, not a quality guarantee.
- Stream ID
- acbf82db-80cf-488d-8b3c-d964f80a7822
- Preference rank
- #1 of 1
- Preference score
- 1822
- Source host
- live.channel8.com
- URL scheme
- HTTPS
- Catalog media type
- Not yet verified
- Detected protocol
- hls
- Manifest type
- hls master
- Container
- Not yet verified
- Supplied quality
- 720p
- Detected resolution
- 1920x1080
- Frame rate
- 25 fps
- Approximate bitrate
- 3.48 Mbps
- Video codec
- avc1.64001e
- Audio codec
- mp4a.40.2
- Adaptive bitrate
- Yes
- Live stream
- Yes
- HTTPS status
- https
- Availability note
- Not yet verified
- Requires referrer
- No
- Requires custom user agent
- No
- Geographic restriction
- Not yet verified
- Authentication
- Not yet verified
- DRM
- Not yet verified
- Health
- healthy
- Browser compatibility
- {"status":"unknown"}
- Device compatibility
- {"status":"unverified"}
- Detection evidence
- {"runId":"df762bc3-efec-487e-acae-b1963922113f","verifier":"manifest-v1","checkedAt":"2026-08-13T19:20:18.276703+00:00"}
- Last checked
- Aug 13, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC
- Last success
- Aug 13, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC
- Last failure
- Never
- First catalog sighting
- Jul 20, 2026, 4:47 AM UTC
- Last catalog sighting
- Jul 23, 2026, 5:52 AM UTC
- Metadata updated
- Sep 19, 2026, 7:44 AM UTC
- Source revision
- Not yet verified
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